Abstract

We consider noncollinear interaction among three amplitude-modulated plane waves in a uniaxial crystal under type I phase-matching conditions. If one among the interacting fields can be taken as undepleted during the interaction, the remaining two fields are holographic replicas of each other: the undepleted field acts as the reference field in holography. We develop a general method to calculate the holographic wave front generated by a nonplane object wave front and a plane reference wave front. We present experiments in which a holographic image of an object consisting of a pointlike light source is obtained by choosing the object- and reference-field frequencies among ${\omega }_1,$ ${\omega }_2,$ and ${\omega }_3$ (with ${\omega }_3={\omega }_1+{\omega }_2)$ in any of the possible combinations.

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Optical phase conjugation in difference-frequency generation

Viktor N. Mikhailov, Maria Bondani, Fabio Paleari, and Alessandra Andreoni
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Properties of two interlinked χ⁽²⁾ interactions in noncollinear phase matching

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Opt. Lett. 29(2) 180-182 (2004)

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All-optical logic operations by means of two interlinked χ⁽²⁾ interactions in a single crystal

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J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 21(10) 1839-1847 (2004)